Hans J. Wegner Follow "Peacock" easy chair, model no. JH521 circa 1953 Oak, fabric, leather. 39 1/2 x 34 3/4 x 34 1/4 in. (100.3 x 88.3 x 87 cm) Executed by cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Provenance Private collection, Copenhagen, acquired circa 1955 Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018 Literature Johan Møller Nielsen, Wegner en dansk møbelkunster, Copenhagen, 1965, p. 61 Grete Jalk ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 3: 1947-1956, Copenhagen, 1987, pp. 245, 325 Jens Bernsen, Hans J. Wegner on Design, Copenhagen, 1995, p. 13 Noritsugu Oda, Danish Chairs, San Francisco, 1996, p. 106 Christian Holmsted Olesen, Wegner: just one good chair, exh. cat., Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, 2014, p. 107 Catalogue Essay The present model armchair, which later became known as the "Peacock," belongs to Hans Wegner’s modernized Windsor series, which was executed by master cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen. Wegner had always admired and was fascinated by the Windsor chair and he referred to it as “a simple construction, something the people of England were able to make 200 years ago. But it is also a distinctive design, precisely because it expresses what it is so naturally." Wegner designed the original wooden “Peacock” chair in 1947, which had a magnificent fanned and radiating back with ergonomically flattened spindles. The present model “Peacock” was celebrated by a critic for being “beautifully formed” when first exhibited at the Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition in 1953. Mimicking the original “Peacock” the present model is an example of Wegner developing forms, but due to its complicated construction it was therefore too expensive to produce, so only a few were ever executed making this a rare production by Johannes Hansen. In 1955 the present model was shown again at the prestigious Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition where the stand was greeted with even more praise: “This year there was a strong note of masculinity and robustness in Wenger’s interior as well as in the individual pieces of furniture." Read More
Hans J. Wegner Follow "Peacock" easy chair, model no. JH521 circa 1953 Oak, fabric, leather. 39 1/2 x 34 3/4 x 34 1/4 in. (100.3 x 88.3 x 87 cm) Executed by cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Provenance Private collection, Copenhagen, acquired circa 1955 Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018 Literature Johan Møller Nielsen, Wegner en dansk møbelkunster, Copenhagen, 1965, p. 61 Grete Jalk ed., Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 aar, Volume 3: 1947-1956, Copenhagen, 1987, pp. 245, 325 Jens Bernsen, Hans J. Wegner on Design, Copenhagen, 1995, p. 13 Noritsugu Oda, Danish Chairs, San Francisco, 1996, p. 106 Christian Holmsted Olesen, Wegner: just one good chair, exh. cat., Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, 2014, p. 107 Catalogue Essay The present model armchair, which later became known as the "Peacock," belongs to Hans Wegner’s modernized Windsor series, which was executed by master cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen. Wegner had always admired and was fascinated by the Windsor chair and he referred to it as “a simple construction, something the people of England were able to make 200 years ago. But it is also a distinctive design, precisely because it expresses what it is so naturally." Wegner designed the original wooden “Peacock” chair in 1947, which had a magnificent fanned and radiating back with ergonomically flattened spindles. The present model “Peacock” was celebrated by a critic for being “beautifully formed” when first exhibited at the Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition in 1953. Mimicking the original “Peacock” the present model is an example of Wegner developing forms, but due to its complicated construction it was therefore too expensive to produce, so only a few were ever executed making this a rare production by Johannes Hansen. In 1955 the present model was shown again at the prestigious Cabinetmakers’ Guild Exhibition where the stand was greeted with even more praise: “This year there was a strong note of masculinity and robustness in Wenger’s interior as well as in the individual pieces of furniture." Read More
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